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My opponent is playing with 2nd gen slann and a skink priest and lot of dispel dice.. his magic is very overwhelming... as a general tactic, is it better to over magic him or just have average magic?

it rare to out magic a 2nd gen slann with skink priests, what army do you collect?
is the slann in a unit? if so what? (im assuming temple guard)

if you collect emire then it is very easy, just fire volleys of cannons and the odd hellblaster at it.

once you reply ill post a few ways to kill them with your army.

i play as Chaos daemons. he probably will have:
2nd gen slaan, skink priest L2 with the storing item
1 unit temple guards
1 unit saurus warrirors w/hero
2 x 3 salamanders
2 x 10 skinks with javelins.

it hurts that his salamaders can strike down any potential skirmirshers i might have.

2 real options:

1: Go no magic casting (maybe 1 mage just to allow dispels).
2: Go Tzeentch firecracker OTT magic (IIRC at 2250 you can jam 17PD in your army)

My preference would be magic light.

Say:
Bloodthirster decked out
Tzeench herald
Skulltaker
x2 units 5 flamers
x1 unit 5 screamers (he has tiny units so you will hammer him with screamers)
Bloodletters
Flesh hounds
Whatever else takes your fancy.

Of course it all depends on what you have available model wise...

Hide your skirmishers from his salamanders until you can get him in range (behind units, terrain etc)


Also if he sticks the diadem of power (the storing magic dice item) on the skink priest remember that ONLY the bearer can make use of the extra power dice generated (which is why it ALWAYS goes on my SMP).

here's couple of armies (2k)
List1:
LOC w/ twin heads, dark magister
Bluescribes
tzeentch herald power vortex,fly
tzeentch herald, power vortex
10 horrors x 2
10 bloodletters
5 hounds
2x6 flamers
14/8/bound/sb
Basically try to "outmagic" him and play keep away and thin him out before going for the kill...

List2:
Bloodthirster w/ immortal fury, armor of khorne, fireblade/axe of khorne
1 herald tzeentch w/ master sorc, spellbreaker
1x herald tzeentch w/ master sorc, spellbreaker, bsb sunder
2 x 10 horrors
11 bloodletters w/musician
2x5 hounds
2x5 flamers
8/6/2 spellbreakers.

For list 2 i can also take out 5 hounds and put in herald of nurgle w/ noxious vapours and 14 plaguebearers instead of 11 bloodletters...
List 2 is more fighty and lack some magic but somewhat average...

I will also be heading against Teclis army too....
Suggestions?

Ask your opponent not to use him?

Otherwise both lists are as hard as nails. I'm glad I don't play in your neck of the woods.

dude played the 2nd gen slaan b4 i can tell you there is a lot of points in him. the khorne list is good but you got to have the conbat res anvil plaguebears to help out res/ out kill the unit
the greater standard of sundering is a must as light magic is the hurts for daemons. btw he shouldnt have 2 units of salamanders. thats 3 rares. he should try kroxigor instead worth every point if used correctly. a good tactic is to stop his supporting units coz then you can flank rear charge with everything without wondering bout whether ur flanks exposed. a slaans nasty but an entire 2000 pt army should be able to whether his spellpower till his supporting units are killed.

I dont have the lizardman book since 5th edition, and nnone plays lizzies around here. What does the 2nd gen Slann do?

generates an extra power die for every die, get's +2 to cast, ignores miscasts, can get each spell from different colleges, etc.